With less than three months until Election Day, Democrats are becoming increasingly concerned that the independent groups they are counting on for support won’t have the money to counter what they fear will be an unprecedented advertising campaign waged by their Republican counterparts.

Republicans and their allies have been working for months with single-minded focus on plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on ads funded by a combination of existing special interest groups and newly formed political outfits.

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But Democratic operatives trying to raise money for expensive ad campaigns report that the wealthy liberals (and, to some extent, labor unions) who wrote huge checks to independent groups for advertising campaigns in the past three election cycles are sitting on their wallets.

Democrats attribute the stinginess to a variety of factors, including the lingering recession, the absence of a single unifying enemy such as former President George W. Bush and fatigue among the wealthy donors who wrote big checks during the past two election cycles.

There’s also a degree of disenchantment with the Obama political operation, which discouraged big-dollar independent activity when then-Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign was shattering fundraising records during the 2008 presidential campaign and has done little to revive it since. In addition, tension between the White House and organized labor, a traditional Democratic ally and source of political cash, has suppressed the totals.

Partly as a result, some of the big donor-funded groups that had spent millions in past elections on ads boosting Democrats are largely dormant, and new liberal groups created to take advantage of a January Supreme Court decision loosening campaign rules have yet to fill the vacuum.

“The Democratic Party’s enthusiasm gap is not only a grass-roots phenomenon, it’s a donor phenomenon as well,” said Mark Longabaugh, who founded and runs Majority Action, a liberal nonprofit group established under Section 527 of the Internal Revenue Service code, allowing it to accept unlimited contributions from individuals, corporations and unions.

Majority Action spent about $6 million on so-called independent expenditures boosting Democratic candidates during the 2006 and 2008 election cycles. But it has not reported raising a penny so far this cycle and has scaled back its operations, and Longabaugh did not sound confident that it — or other groups — would be able to ramp up in time to match the anticipated conservative deluge.

“With Democrats in the majority and controlling the White House this go-round, there has been some complacency up until now about the superiority of our cash positions,” said Longabaugh, pointing out that the three national Democratic party committees hold a rare combined fundraising advantage over their Republican counterparts headed into the midterms. “Democrats and progressives need to be very, very careful and vigilant here,” said Longabaugh, “because there’s a real danger that the Republicans are not only going to be able to fill that gap with these outside groups, but they’re going to be able to outspend us, and that’s a danger that nobody quite seems to see coming.”

It's going to get worse for Democrats especially with new report of unemployment at 500,000 the highest in 9 months, plus CBO report. Obama can't fool the American people anymore. His spin is not working, people are giving him the middle finger.

A vote for ANY Democrat candidate this November is a vote for Obama, a vote for high unemployment.

Make a choice, your stomach or your party libs. I'd be watching posters here, some of you would soon be out of the roof you're living in, some of you very soon can't afford to be online.

Well what do you expect even the base is tired and knows they shouldn't be handing over millions of dollars to a losing cause. This is just the way things works when real unemployment is around 17% and businesses are sitting on tons of cash with no incentive to put it to work. History dictates Republicans will gain seat this year it's just the way things work.

(from the Ashmonk Gazette and Advertiser, August 2010. It's well worth a read.)

Suffering Vet’s Family Asks Obama, Why Don't You Care?

Sgt. Calvin Boggs, Iraq vet, now stationed at Ft Gordon Georgia had little to celebrate on his recent 27th birthday. The cake prepared by his mother, Charity Boggs, 47, of Ashmonk County, never arrived. For the first time, including his service in Iraq, Boggs has been denied mother's birthday cooking. Although Ms Boggs double chocolate cake was boxed and wrapped, it was refused shipment by the United States Post Office. The box lacked the securing twine demanded by rigid government regulation for food packages. In her struggle to provide her son, an Iraq vet with his annual pastry, she visited five outlets in the Greater Beesmont area. Shockingly, no store had even a single roll of postal twine. When reached by telephone, Ms Boggs, who creates her own cake mix from numerous ingredients, said, "I blame Barack Hussein Obama. He hasn’t fixed the Ashmonk County twine crisis." At Gunwald’s Hardware, one of the stores visited by Charity Boggs, Steig Gunwald, 53, the owner of Gunwald’s, and his son and stock room manager, Lance Gunwald, 25, were perplexed about the regional lack of postal twine. Both father and son hastened to assure us that Gunwald’s had no part in causing the current crisis. “We always carry postal twine, “ gasped Lance, a portly man whose face grew red when asked about the possibility of conspiracy. “Gunwald’s had nothing to do with it. We just order through a huge distributor. It just didn’t come in last months order. But, something weird is going on, because it didn’t come in the month before either. That’s a first.” Steig Gunwald did not care to express his theories on the record. Instead, he suggested we “follow the money” and gave us the name of his large regional distributor. Dwight Wong, 37, an accountant spokesman for Alatron Distribution, was unable or unwilling to answer our questions. He claimed that woman in charge of string, twine and fabric, Gladis Friday, 26, of Ashmonk county was on maternity leave. “I don’t know schmatz about twine,” Mr Wong tried to assure us. He suggested we call early next month. But, the cake remains in the fridge and the Iraq veteran’s mother, Charity Boggs remains unsparing of the Obama administration for their mishandling of the entire affair that causes her such motherly sorrow. "He can waste billions on just about anything and he plays golf and she goes to France and all. Why can't he spend a bit of his oh so precious time to get some twine to Ashmonk County. Because, he hates Iraq vets, that's why. Obama spent whole nights last week laying on his back with his eyes shut." “Even absolute monarchs have more brains than Obama,” quipped KRZY anchor Flush Peck, “Marie Antoinette said ‘Let them eat cake.’ Obama says, Don’t let them eat cake.’ He later suggested lightheartedly that we start to consider our “guillotine options.” perhaps because Marie Antoinette met that unfortunate end. Many local pundits including Flush, wonder how badly Obama's insensitivity to Iraq veterans’ confectionary needs, and the still unaddressed Ashmonk County twine crisis, will effect his ever plunging poll numbers.

Why should this be a problem for Dems???? Can they just ban elections once and for all???

November 3, 2010:

Barack Obama said Wednesday that he would not accept the results of the election. Democrats, claiming massive fraud, have demanded manual recounts of votes cast in the November 2 elections until all Democrats come out ahead and said they plan to file a federal discrimination law suit against dead peoples votes not being counted past their first four ballots and illegal aliens votes not being counted past their first six ballots. Barack Obama, Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have all said the elections were not credible and urged Democrat Senators and Representatives who were fraudulently defeated at the polls to barricade themselves in their offices until Eric Holder, the DNC, SEIC, ACORN, CAIR and LaRaza could properly sort everything out.

They will be cheerleading to their comrades that we have almost acheived socialist utopia. We cannot fail now, with the ultimate Marxist dream just a few more economy collapsing stimulist packages away from success!!

results of the election. Democrats, claiming massive fraud, have demanded manual recounts of votes cast in the November 2 elections until all Democrats come out ahead and said they plan to file a federal discrimination law suit against dead peoples votes not being counted past their first four ballots and illegal aliens votes not being counted past their first six ballots. Barack Obama, Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have all said the elections were not credible and urged Democrat Senators and Representatives who were fraudulently defeated at the polls to barricade themselves in their offices until Eric Holder, the DNC, SEIC, ACORN, CAIR and LaRaza could properly sort everything out.

The Dems will win biggg in November inspite of corporate bought FOX and 500 right wing radio whacko's The swift boat machine has ran out of fresh ideas. Obama?Dem2010/12 for a greater and sane America!

results of the election. Democrats, claiming massive fraud, have demanded manual recounts of votes cast in the November 2 elections until all Democrats come out ahead and said they plan to file a federal discrimination law suit against dead peoples votes not being counted past their first four ballots and illegal aliens votes not being counted past their first six ballots. Barack Obama, Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have all said the elections were not credible and urged Democrat Senators and Representatives who were fraudulently defeated at the polls to barricade themselves in their offices until Eric Holder, the DNC, SEIC, ACORN, CAIR and LaRaza could properly sort everything out.

The Dems will win biggg in November inspite of corporate bought FOX and 500 right wing radio whacko's The swift boat machine has ran out of fresh ideas. Obama?Dem2010/12 for a greater and sane America!

What is this I read? For the last several weeks, I've heard the Alphabet News touting that the Dems have raised money 2:1 against the Republicans. I can't imagine why they're worried. Oh, that's right. Those pesky poll numbers. Bwahahaha!

Putting up with this *** clown for two years will be worth it when the Demwits are swept out of office for the next 20+ years.

Marxism, coddling Muslim terrorists, robbing from Americans and giving to illegals, gays demanding marriage and trying to influence children, murdering unborn babies, outrageous fiscal policies, telling everyone how to think and what to do. America has now seen what the Libturds and Leftists Dems are really all about and it isn't pretty.

Let this be a lesson to the younger generation and independents that had forgotten how bad Democrats and libturds suck.

It is sad, to me, that the same corporations that have been shipping jobs overseas for years and ran the economy into the ground in 2008 because of their own greed, only to be bailed out by me and other Americans, are sending money to conservative political groups in order to oust Democrats. All the Democrats want these corporations to do is to pay their fair share....Not pour oil out into the Gulf nor run the credit markets into the ground and ruin the economy for everyone except the wealthiest....Anyone who isn't a multi-millionare that would vote for a conservative is a fool. Just a damn fool, nothing more...Go to work, pay your taxes, and let's pull this country together....I got no worries if a few of my tax dollars get wasted on a lazy drug addict....It's better to me than working for a wealthy ******* who pays me nothing and collects massive income checks.....

The Dems will win biggg in November inspite of corporate bought FOX and 500 right wing radio whacko's The swift boat machine has ran out of fresh ideas. Obama?Dem2010/12 for a greater and sane America!

I see that you've gotten your talking points for the day. What a shame they didn't give you a dictionary.